Category: Meet Our Members

This month, we chat with Dr. Lidia Mínguez Alarcón, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Mínguez Alarcón’s research focuses on identifying chemical and non-chemical stressors of human fertility, reproductive and cardiometabolic health. She is also evaluating fertility measures as predictors of long-term health. As an environmental and reproductive epidemiologist, she is primarily working in the EARTH Study, a prospective cohort study…

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This month, we chat with Dr. Nick Nassikas, Instructor in Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center about his research, career and hobbies. What research are you currently working on? The primary focus of my research is climate change and respiratory health. As a pulmonary critical care physician, I see patients who are impacted by their environment on a daily basis. Climate change is causing aberrations in weather with…

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This month, we chat with Hui Hu, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Associate Epidemiologist in the Channing Division of Network Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. What research are you currently working on?   My team are working on several projects focusing on health impacts of the external exposome. In these projects, we are integrating and harmonizing multi-source environmental data to examine the external exposome’s impacts on…

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This month, we ask Assistant Professor of Environmental, Reproductive, and Women’s Health Dr. Shruthi Mahalingaiah about her research, academic journey, and career. What research are you currently working on?   I am working on so much research related to environmental reproductive and Women’s Health. Type mom specifically I am focusing on menstrual cycles and environmental exposures during the menstrual cycle as measured in menstrual blood. I am also working on research…

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We’d like you to meet Peter James, ScD, MHS, assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health. Below, we ask Peter about his research on estimating the influence of spatial factors, including exposure to nature, the built environment, the food environment, air pollution, light pollution, noise, and socioeconomic factors, on health behaviors and chronic disease.   What research are you currently working on?  These days, I’m devoting the majority of…

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We’d like you to meet Wanda Phipatanakul, MD, MS, director of the Division of Immunology Research Center at Boston Children’s Hospital and S. Jean Emans Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Below, we ask Wanda about her research to reduce and prevent asthma and allergic diseases. What research are you currently working on? 1. Health disparities in inner-city children: My lab discovered the relationship between mouse infestations in urban…

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We’d like you to meet Assistant Professor of Nutritional and Planetary Health Chris Golden, MPH, PhD. Below, we ask Chris about his research working with populations in Madagascar and the South Pacific, how he got started in this field, and what he does when he’s not at work: 1. What research are you working on now?  I’m focusing on two different research themes right now. One body of work focuses…

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